Date: Thu, 28 Jul 1994 19:41:35 -0400
From: "Becky Howard, Department of Interdisciplinary Writing,
Colgate University"
Subject: Re: Forrest Gump
I haven't read the novel nor seen the film, but I'm curious about the
representation of invariant *be* in the dialect of a white Alabaman. Is it
perhaps an attempt similar to what the scriptwriters of the film *Sergeant
York* put into Gary Cooper's mouth, as a representation of 1940's white
Tennessee speech?
Becky Howard
Department of Interdisciplinary Writing
Colgate University
BHOWARD[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]CENTER.COLGATE.EDU